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• Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Insane, Hallucinations

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

  Agnes Varda

  Gleaning, Body, Film

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Thanks

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• You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, House

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• If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

  Robert Munsch

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Numbers, Advice

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• I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

  Antony Hegarty

  Song, Reality, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

  Bill Henson

  Choices, Cameras, Landscape

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and picks up a bit of this and a bit of that. I was confirmed a Christian when I was a kid purely because I wanted a piece of jewelry, so I don't know whether this is just another extension of that.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Christian, Kids, People

  Source: www.excellentonline.com

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• If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Winning, Nfl

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but I would encourage people to search their desires, to pick out one, and then get out and do it!

  Nola Ochs

  People, Desire, Want

  Source: www.mybestyears.com

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• Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

  Wale

  Artist, Albums, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the players who not only have the on-ice skills, but the off-ice skills too. I think in any job, if you have good people and you work together, you work better.

  Gerad Adams

  Jobs, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

  John Waters

  Night, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Meaningful, Views, Broken

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Forget Everything, Forget, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I never really think much about the size of a production because I think as an actor, once you're in it, it's all the same. I never ever pick projects based on their size.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Actors, Size

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Guy

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Religion

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

  Bob Marley

  Song, Inspiration, Mean

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• Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

  Joe Hill

  Sin, Asks

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• If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

  Tim O'Brien

  Book, Reading, Long

  Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”, Broadway

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• Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.

  Colin Wilson

  Wall, Spring, Cutting

  Colin Wilson (1971). “The Occult: A History”, Vintage

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